Is there such a thing as a Mormon Political Economy?
There was abroad in the church during the 70s and 80s a discursive theology that explained the class differences between us as at the periphery and those at the centre – and that was Conservative White...
View ArticleTo question or not to question ‘The Church’?
A couple of years ago I was in a temple recommend interview with a member of the Stake Presidency. I had just arrived through the door when unexpectedly and without any particular context associated...
View ArticleCould this be a Kiwi Mormon Moment as well?
I remember the day I first wrote the word ‘girl’. I was five years old and in Mrs Brunsden’s Primer Two class at Bamford Primary School. Of course I always knew that I was a girl, but there was...
View ArticleUnlatching from the Amerimormon cultural teat
As I gaze on with admiration as my friend Joanna Brookes becomes Mormonism’s media darling in the US I’m both thrilled and excited about this moment in our religious history. Joanna’s love of a faith...
View ArticleTalking Kiwi Mormonism with TV3
In anticipation of a television interview I gave for TV3′s “The Nation” (airing this weekend), I prepared some answers to the reporters pre-interview questions. Its likely that only a fraction of...
View ArticleShould Romney repent? ‘Yes!’, says the prophet Mormon
I had determined that I had said all that I was going to say about Romney – I wasn’t going to dignify the man with any more attention, nor give his groupies yet more fuel to respond with their...
View ArticleEmbodying the Mormon Cultural Turn: A personal reflection
I’ve only been blogging since the beginning of the year but in that time I’ve had hundreds and hundreds of comments from readers. On a regular basis I get messages from well meaning folk who have...
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